Spanish school of the 17th-18th century. "Dead Christ with St. John and Mary Magdalene". Paper pulp. Remains of polychrome. Presents faults, marks of use and wear. Measurements: 26 x 22 cm (irregular); 29 x 26 cm (frame). In this relief entirely made in paper pulp is represented the theme of the Lamentation before the body of Christ, a theme paired with the Descent from the Cross. The scene of the lamentation or weeping over the body of the dead Christ is part of the cycle of the Passion, and is intercalated between the Descent from the Cross and the Holy Burial. It narrates the moment in which the body of Christ is deposited on a shroud (in other cases, on the stone of anointing) and they are arranged around him, bursting in laments and sobs, his mother, St. John, the holy women, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. It is a very emotional theme, fruit of popular piety, which concentrates the attention on the drama of the Passion and the loving and sorrowful contemplation, with a realistic and moving sense. In Byzantium, and in the representations of Byzantine influence, the figure of Christ rests on the slab of the anointing, where his corpse was perfumed and prepared to receive burial, which later in Italian art will become a sepulcher. This scene does not appear in the Gospels, but finds its origin in mystical literature and religious texts of piety, as well as in those of the confraternities of flagellants.